Stock-waterer



(N b' ModeL) J. M. DEWEY.

STOCK WATERBR, No. 352,047. Paten d-Nov. 2, 1886.

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JOHN M. DEWEY, OF SHELLROGK, IOWVA.

STOC'K-WATERER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,04'7, dated November 2, 1886,

Application filed September 2, 1886. Serial No. 212,535. No model.)

lowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which provided with a thumb-nut, Q, by which said adjustable weight may be secured at any de-' form a part of this specification,

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a plan View. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line as m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on line y y, Fig. 1.

My invention relates to devices for watering stock; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the main portion of the body of the stock-waterer, which is covered by an" angular-hinged lid or cover, B, which, when closed down, extends over the top of the portion A of the, body and down along the vertical edges of the ends (1 G of said main portion A, and meets the front upper edge, D, of said main portion. iliary portion E of the body A, or that portion of the device from which the stock drinks, is open at the top, in order that the stock may have ready access to the same.

Within the main portion A of the body I provide the feed-controlling receptacle or box E, which is connected below its bottom by the vertical rods or arms G (3?, secn red to its opposite sides at its vertical middleline to the ends of the curved diverging arms H H of the lever I, said arms H H- having fulcrum-bends J in them, which bends rest upon a transverse rod, K, secured in the side walls of the box A.

Made integral with the curved arms H H is the weight-supporting arm L, which extends nearly to the vertical partition N, and this arm L, which is an open or slotted arm, is provided with an adjustable weight, P, which is sired point, sothat when there is no water in the receptacle F the weight will descend and raise the receptacle F, which is connected through its bail R with the lower end of an angle-arm, S, the upper end of said angle-arm S being fulcrumed in bearings T, projecting from the inner face of the end 0 of the portion A of the body. This portion Ais provided in its end 0' with a supply-pipe, U, which is, connected with the pump or tank which supplies thewater to the stock-waterer, and the an- Which automatically closes the pipe U when the weight of the water in the receptacle]? is sufficient to overcome the adjustable weight P on the slotted arm L.

The receptacle F is connected by a flexible tube, W, with the box portion E, so that the water is conveyed'through said pipe or tube W into the drinking receptacle or box portion E. This construction provides for the automatic operation of the feedcontrolling receptacle F; for as soon as the water in said recep- V tacle F has runoff into the drinking-receptacle E the weight will automatically open the 'valve at the supply-pipe and permit the water to flow into the receptacle F until the weight ofthe water therein is sufficient to again close the valve. \Vhen the drinking-receptacle has been filled to the level of the flexible tube, the

device will cease to be operative until enough of the water in the drinking-receptacle has been consumed to bring the level of the water in the latter below the discharge end of the flexible tube, when the feed-controlling receptacle will again become operative. The backwater, which accumulates in the receptacle F after the drinking-receptacle is filled to the proper level, overcomes the adj ustable weight and closes the valve at the feed-pipe, which will remain closed until the water can again run into the partially-exhausted drinking-re- 'gle-arm S is provided with a stem-valve, V, v

oeptacle, and in this way thedrinking-receptacle will always have a supply of water therein for the stock so long as the supply at the tank or pump is kept up.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

The combination, wit-h the main body portion provided with the hinged cover and the .open drinking-receptacle separated from the main body portion by a vertical partition, of I of the bail of said feed-receptacle, and the the feed-receptacle suspended through its bail flexible tube connecting the feed-receptacle from the lower end of the pivoted angle-lever, with the drinking-receptacle, substantially as supported at its upper end in bearings prospecified.

5 jeoting inwardly from the end Wall of the main in testimony whereofI affiX my signature in IS body portion, and provided with the stempresence of two witnesses.

Valve for closing the supply-pipe, and the JOH\ M. DEWEY. weighted slotted lever fulerumed on a trans- \Vitnesses: verse rod below the feed-receptacle and con- HOMER SMITH,

[o nected to the lower ends of the Vertical arms CHARLES E. SMITH. 

